Why on earth won't they pair?

[tonyydeee]

Mine swims in the VERY front of the tank.

[Zack]

Get one of those three dollar clownfish algae clips and put the clown clip next to the base of the anemone (usually do this before the lights on) as the anemone opens up, the clowns will notice another "clown" next to it and swim towards it. It took my tank raised clowns about an hour to notice the other clown (which was bigger then them) and now both of them host the anemone. I tried the photo method, but honestly no mattered how much I sized it down, the clowns were always scared of it. Also, I don't think clownfish have the ability to relate a flat two dimensional object to a three dimensional one. Few animals can.

[allan]

You can use the samd method. He has a contraption that he built to keep the clown next to the anemone for a few hours which did the job.

[neogenix]

Update: So the first set of clowns went to gabes and found themselves a new home. The second set (My now few month old BISS clowns) have decided to host with nearly EVERYTHING, which includes some fairy dust paly's that they're pretty fond of (by EVERYTHING i mean, torch, zoa, paly, anemone, etc...). The fairy dust paly's seem to have taken to stinging them, thus causing black spots on them... they seem pretty unfazed, but they're just odd looking now :P Stupid clowns!!

[Big_Pun]

that bites i ended with the remaining picasso from gabes, it started hosting the RBTA with in 2 days and has stayed there. But has developed hatred for the mag float, as soon as i move the float it attacks it, no matter where in the tank the float is. stupid clown lol!!

[neogenix]

Lol, die mag float die!!

[Zack]

Haha, I decided to give up my anemone after 8 months (it was getting HUGE) and now my clowns are trying to host everything in the tank! Its funny to watch them try to smother themselves in the GSP.

[Zack]

Just an update, I added a new thermometer to the tank and the clowns decided to host it.. silly clowns haha